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  • Any Russians or Ukrainans here?

    From Retrograde@fungus@amongus.com.invalid to tilde.club on Fri Mar 4 21:56:39 2022
    I'm not interested in talking politics here. But I'm hearing that Russia is closing down access to the Internet and I'm curious if Usenet is still
    working in Russia.

    After all, you can block facebook at the DNS level and it's gone. But
    Usenet was designed from the start to be harder to block. Guess you'd
    have to block it at the port level, or something.
    --
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
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  • From ~unbeatable101@unbeatable101@ctrl-c.club to tilde.club on Sat Mar 5 00:21:21 2022
    On 2022-03-04 21:56, Retrograde wrote:
    I'm not interested in talking politics here. But I'm hearing that Russia is closing down access to the Internet and I'm curious if Usenet is still working in Russia.

    After all, you can block facebook at the DNS level and it's gone. But
    Usenet was designed from the start to be harder to block. Guess you'd
    have to block it at the port level, or something.



    If you want to know if people are on usenet, wouldn't you want to ask in
    one of the newsgroups that isn't closed off to a few servers?
    --
    ~unbeatable101


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  • From gamliel@gamliel@cosmic.voyage to tilde.club on Mon May 23 14:10:47 2022
    From: Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    Reply to: [1]Retrograde
    Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 21:56:39 -0500
    Organization: tilde.club
    Newsgroups:
    [2]tilde.club
    Followup to: [3]newsgroup

    I am a Jew in Russia.

    I'm hearing that Russia is
    closing down access to the Internet

    No. Some sites are blocked, but I know how to work-around the blocks.

    Not the technical blocks are the most network problem for human beings in Russia. A person who does not know how to work-around the blocks, has a friend or a relative who does. The most efficient block is a fear (i.e., the fear to be put into a prison); very many persons in Russia dislike the regime but do not write about it in the Internet.

    and I'm curious if Usenet is still
    working in Russia.

    The same as anywhere. Is Unenet still working?
    --
    Friendly,
    Gamliel Fishkin
    https://fishk.in/
    gopher://eyeblea.ch/1/~gamliel/
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  • From amitla@amitla@dimension.sh (Amitla) to tilde.club on Tue Feb 28 01:13:03 2023
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
    I'm not interested in talking politics here. But I'm hearing that Russia is closing down access to the Internet and I'm curious if Usenet is still working in Russia.


    I'm from Sevastopol, Russia.
    This is not true that Russia closed Internet. They have disallowe few servers. Facebook for example. First Facebook started banning all Russians. Russians said "bye". At the same time Facebook had banned 25 million Trump's supporters. All of them moved to Russian "Telegram". LiveJournal left the USA and moved
    to Moscow 10 years ago.
    So the social networks are now in process of migration to free environment -
    No LGBT, no democracy, no Biden.
    This is not the same as "closed Internet", you said.
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  • From amitla@amitla@dimension.sh (Amitla) to tilde.club on Thu Mar 2 12:22:33 2023
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
    I'm not interested in talking politics here. But I'm hearing that Russia is closing down access to the Internet and I'm curious if Usenet is still working in Russia.

    After all, you can block facebook at the DNS level and it's gone. But
    Usenet was designed from the start to be harder to block. Guess you'd
    have to block it at the port level, or something.

    I would say you don't see the big picture.
    Russian Internet is the largest in Europe.
    Russian Social Internet is #3 in the World.
    Russian Internet is a powerfull tool of influence. We can change/setup any president in any country (2016 was a good example)
    Russia provides essential Space and Communication technologies.
    Big part of Linux has been developed by Russians. There is NO internet
    without Linux.

    So. If Russia close Internet whe whole World will collapse. It also can shutdown Intermet in non-friendly coutries, leaving the rest of the World untouched.

    Regarding to USENET. It has always been Russian playground. Now I see that some
    young lady requested to ban Russian language in the Club. You were allowed
    to be here. Please behave accordingly.

    С наилучшими пожеланиями.
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